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jake rodkin
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Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs
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I think this site is bad and we have all been tricked into being here. Also I am enjoying all of your posts.
Bring back Blades
Xbox 360 is now 20 years old (November 22, 2005)
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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lydia.tar
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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[drops a piece of toast] This toast is now considered to be lost media 😔
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
To say I am consumed by the cast of Dispatch would be a true statement, and canon.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I really liked the music used in the Steam Hardware Announcement video, so I made an extended, looped version of the ending.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQ7...
Steam Hardware Announcement music seamless extended and looped 10 min
YouTube video by Midlou
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Going to start saying that they don’t make adventure games like they used to but only because they don’t make games to promote Peperami OR BiFi salami sausages anymore

www.mobygames.com/game/9244/bi...
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web.

To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html
Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset: The Original Space Quest Fan Site
The web's first and most comprehensive Space Quest fan site, packed with Easter eggs, trivia, downloads, and retrospectives on Sierra's classic adventure series.
wiw.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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one of my favourite goofs—if there was one thing we did at campo it was Commit to the Bit
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I started an Instagram for My Iphone Architecture Photography. Ive got 100s of thousands (way to many) Photos that I use for reference for my concept work. If thats interesting to you you can check it out here
www.instagram.com/kellan_outsi...
Im posting India Stuff atm, Likely Taiwan or Turkey next
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hopefully people will take me more seriously with this Super Mario World cartoon show Yoshi avatar.
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Doing some long-overdue cleanup on the English language this morning… "Carcinogenic" is now "cancerogenic." "Floor" is now "foor," the opposite of "roof." Complementary colors rhyme (red/gred, orange/blorange)
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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King's
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Imagine I'll get zero responses to this, but if any (UK-based) pool players happen to come upon this - any suggestions for where I could find good One Pocket games and players (preferably in London)?

Also any good 14-1 / Straight pool players out there?
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I haven't watched Episode 1 in a hot minute but I'm pretty sure this is about how it went down between Watto and Qui-Gon
August 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Apple Jonathan aesthetic.
November 11, 2023 at 10:19 AM
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If you want some joy in your life, here's ZUNTATA, the Taito in house band playing this track live - youtu.be/OFjv6_p7qRE ❤️❤️❤️
August 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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New movie (Blade) added to my ongoing list of films set in “present day” boxd.it/dMdta
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.
August 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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new for game devs:
w i d e s t o r e
plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description.
steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...
Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Beta: Wider store pages; Video support for written game descriptions
Store pages are getting wider and now support uploading video files for your written description
steamcommunity.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan.

aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

(via @ferociousj.bsky.social)
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s always a surprise to see an old debug screen years and years later. This is not a fancy one but is what we saw when booting Tales of Monkey Island every day for the ~year it was in development.
August 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Something made for fun a while ago; a #Discworld point & click gameplay mock-up animation thingy 🙌
October 17, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM